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Resources

Articles on community-building

• "Genius at Work", http://www.fastcompany.com/online/17/genius.html , FastCompany, September 1998.  re: Bill Strickland, President & CEO, Manchester Craftman's Guild & Bidwell Training Center

Books on community-building

• Frances Hesselbein, "The Community of the Future"
• M. Scott Peck, "The Different Drum"
• Collection, "Community Building: Renewing Spirit & Learning in Business"
  (available from the Foundation for Community Encouragement)
• John Hagel III and Arthur G. Armstrong, "Net Gain: expanding markets through virtual communities"
  (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press), 1997.
  $24.95 235 pages.
• Gilbert Bilezikian, "Community 101 - Reclaiming the Local Church as Community of Oneness"
  (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997)
• Collection from The Drucker Foundation, "The Community of the Future"
  (Jossey-Bass, Inc., Publishers, 1998)

Experts on community-building

• Ann Rhoades, EVP, Promus Corporation -- formerly with Southwest
• Dave Ulrich, U. of Michigan Business School Professor

Examples of community-building

Business

• AES Corporation
• Fast Company
• Southwest Airlines

Government

• Federal
• State
• Local
• International

Nonprofit

• Community leadership programs, i.e. Kellogg Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• National Center for Nonprofit Boards, WA, DC
• Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Personal story
• The Non-Profit Resource Center of Texas

Internet/Virtual

• Howard Rheingold's "The Virtual Community"
  http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book
  Rheingold's book is one of the leading texts on the subject of the on-line
  or virtual communities (including a  discussion of the evolution of The Well).
  It is available for free, on a chapter-by-chapter basis, at this link.
• Amazon.com
• AOL
• Coach University
• The Well

Religious

• Christian
  • re:generator website (from re:generation Magazine)
  • William Wilberforce: Every Arrow Needs a Bow
  • "The Rise and Decline of American Moravian Communalism in the Eighteenth Century", Kathryn Price Foster (Microsoft Word)
• Jewish
• Muslim
• New Age
• Other

Intentional Community

• Findhorn Foundation (www.findhorn.org)
• 'Intentional Communities' web site
• Fellowship for Intentional Community
• Alpha Farm

Community-Building Foundations

• Foundation for Community Encouragement
  Especially valuable for their Community Resource Links.
• Fellowship for Intentional Community
  "...nurtures connections and cooperation among communitarians and their friends"
• The Non-Profit Resource Center of Texas
  The mission of the Nonprofit Resource Center of Texas is to be
  the leading provider of information, training, and consulting services
  for the nonprofit and philanthropic communities
• Institute for Cultural Affiars
  http://www.ica-usa.org/
  The mission of the ICA
  is to promote social innovation
  through
  participation and community building

Websites on community-building

• Collaborative Economics
  http://www.coecon.com
  Doug Henton and Kim Walesh, Colleagues of Virginia Hamilton.
  they have written a book about Civic Entrepreneurs.
• Knowledge Economy News
  http://www.KnowledgeEcology.com/kenews
• Valdis Krebs
  http://www.orgnet.com
  Valdis is an Organizational Network Consultant

Tools

• Open Space Technology (overview by Martin Leith)
• Open Space Bibliography (Martin Leith)

Last updated: 10/21/99
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